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The University of Connecticut
830 Bolton Road, Unit 1099
Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-3930
E-mail: robin.greeley@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
20c art in Mexico, Europe and Latin America, Marxist theory, Postcolonial Theory
Biographical Note:
Dr. Robin Adèle Greeley is Associate Professor of Latin American Art History. Dr. Greeley received her S.M.Arch.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1996). Dr. Greeley is the author of Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War (Yale University Press, 2006). She is currently working on her second book, Cultural Nationalism and State Formation in Mexico, 1920-1950, for which she was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. Dr. Greeley is also the recipient of numerous other national and international grants from institutions such as the Getty Foundation, the Fulbright, the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between the Spanish Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities, and the Joan Miró Foundation, among others. Dr. Greeley is Reviews Editor for Art Journal, and coordinator of the Beverly and Raymond Sackler Art and Archaeology Lectures. She has taught at Stanford, MIT, San Quentin Federal Penitentiary, and U.C. Berkeley. Her research specialties are 20c art in Mexico, Europe and Latin America; Marxist theory; and postcolonial theory.
Selected Publications:
Books :
Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War, (London: Yale University Press, 2006)
Mexican Muralism, co-edited with Alejandro Anreus and Leonard Folgarait, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).
Will include, in addition to the co-authored introduction, two chapters authored by me: “Mexican Muralism, Nationalism and State Formation,” and “International Nationalism: the Contemporáneos and Debates on Post-Revolution Mexican Cultural Nationalism.”
Chapters in Books:
"Mexican Artists in Europe During the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution" in La Amplitud del modernismo y de la modernidad, ed., Stacie G. Widdifield, (Vol. 2 of Hacia otra historia del arte en México) (Mexico: Conaculta, Curare, 2004)
Publication funded by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico) and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Articles :
"El fascismo de Dalí; la paranoia de Lacan" Cultura Moderna no. 2 (2005):9-32.
reprint in translation of "Dalí's Fascism; Lacan's Paranoia”
Art Criticism/Reviews/Catalogue essays :
“Modernism: What El Norte Can Learn From Latin America,” Art Journal v. 64, no.4 (Winter 2005-06)
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